American Horror Story is a dramatic television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Each season, the series focuses on a different setting and story.

In the first season, a family that moves to a house Los Angeles, unaware that it is haunted. Father Ben Harmon (Dylan McDermott) is trying to deal with his wife's rejection after he has an affair with a student, and soon falls under the house's sway. Meanwhile, wife Vivien (Connie Britton) must not only try to forgive her husband but deal with the aftereffects of a miscarriage. Daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga) is confronted with hostile girls at her new school and befriends her father's disturbed teenage patient, Tate Langdon (Evan Peters). And lurking nearby is neighbor Constance (Jessica Lange), a former actress who both hates and is oddly protective of her special-needs daughter Adelaide (Jamie Brewer), who can sense the house's evil.

In the second season, strange happenings occur at Briarcliff Manor, run by the Catholic church as a sanitarium. Sister Jude (Jessica Lange) administers the facility with a strict hand while concealing her lusts. Dr. Arthur Arden (James Cromwell) conducts strange experiments on the patients, including accused serial killer Kit Walker (Evan Peters), the infamous Bloody Face, who may or may not be innocent.

American Horror Story: Coven tells the secret history of witches and witchcraft in America. Over three hundred years have passed since the turbulent days of Salem and those who managed to escape are now facing extinction. Mysterious attacks have been escalating against their kind and young girls are being sent away to a special school in New Orleans to learn how to protect themselves. Wrapped up in the turmoil is new arrival, Zoe, who is harboring a terrifying secret of her own. Alarmed by the recent aggression, Fiona, the long-absent Supreme, sweeps back into town, determined to protect the Coven and hell-bent on decimating anyone who gets in her way.

American Horror Story: Freak Show is set in the town of Jupiter, FL in 1952. One of the last remaining troupes of freaks arrive at the same time as a dark entity that threatens them and the townspeople alike. (Source: FX)

Dandy receives a rude awakening when he discovers that his newly acquired freaks won't perform. Meanwhile, the Tattlers contemplate marriage, while in Hollywood Elsa discovers that she's further from love than ever before.

Each season is the same: starts off with promise, then all the characters start getting killed, sometimes for dramatic effect just to be brought back to life, and then the season ends and you realize there was no real plot, no story being told -- just killings :-( Read more

4x13: Curtain Call recap: Paul supervises the new banner going up for the show, advertising Dandy sings Cole Porter. Penny suggests that they join another show, but Paul warns her that there's nowhere else to go and they're at the end of the line. He figures that they should keep letting Dandy pay them as long as he can... read more.

4x12: Show Stoppers recap: Stanley pulls up to the camp and goes inside where the freaks are celebrating Elsa's departure. As Stanley sits down, Elsa offers a toast to the camp's new owner, Chester. Everyone drinks and Chester promises to do her proud, and Marjorie speaks up and calls Elsa a sour kraut. Elsa says that she wants to spend her last few minutes alone with her family and Chester quickly departs. She then says thanks Stanley as her manager, assuring everyone that they will soon be on television with her. After they eat, they'll watch Browning's movie Freaks. Eve and Paul explain to Stanley how the freaks turn on a normal woman who married one of their own and tries to poison him... read more.

4x10: Orphans recap: Pepper lies in bed with Salty's corpse, after the pinhead passes away of a stroke. Paul and Eve try to convince her to leave her husband, but she refuses. When Eve tells Elsa that Pepper won't budge, Elsa says that she's the only one who understands the depths of Pepper's soul and takes her some food... read more.

4x9: Tupperware Party Massacre recap: Dandy visits the freak show and meets with Maggie. She thinks that his voice sounds familiar, and then tells her that he's hurt someone badly. The person that he's counted on for help no longer can, and Maggie figures that Dandy is worried that this time he'll have to pay. Maggie looks into her crystal ball to see Dandy's past... read more.